weekday

English

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Noun

weekday ‎(plural weekdays)

1. Any day of the week except those which form the weekend; that is:
   1. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday.
   2. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.

Synonyms

• workday
• working day
• (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day

Translations

weekday

• Basque: astegun (eu)
• Catalan: dia feiner, dia laborable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平日 (zh) ‎(píngrì), 平常日 (zh) ‎(píngchángrì), 周日 (zh) ‎(zhōurì)

• Danish: almindelig ugedag
• Dutch: werkdag (nl) m, weekdag (nl) m
• Erzya: такойчи ‎(takojči)
• Esperanto: labortago
• Finnish: arkipäivä
• French: jour de la semaine (fr) m, jour ouvré (fr) m
• German: Wochentag (de) m
• Greek: καθημερινή (el) f ‎(kathimeriní)
• Hawaiian: lā noa
• Hebrew: יוֹם חֹל (he) m ‎(yom ḥol)
• Hungarian: hétköznap (hu)
• Indonesian: hari biasa
• Irish: lá den tseachtain m

• Italian: giorno feriale m
• Japanese: 平日 (ja) ‎(heijitsu), ウィークデー ‎(wīkudē), 週日 ‎(しゅうじつ, shūjitsu)
• Korean: 평일 (ko) ‎(pyeongil) (平日 (ko))
• Latin: feria
• Luxembourgish: Wochendag m
• Macedonian: делник m ‎(délnik)
• Norwegian: hverdag (no) m
• Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
• Polish: dzień roboczy m inan
• Portuguese: dia de semana m
• Romanian: zi a săptămânii f, zi lucrătoare f
• Russian: рабо́чий день m ‎(rabóčij denʹ), бу́дний день m ‎(búdnij denʹ), бу́дни (ru) pl ‎(búdni)
• Spanish: día de semana m
• Swedish: vardag (sv) c
• Welsh: dydd o'r wythnos m

Related terms

• week
• weeknight

References

• American Heritage Dictionary
• “weekday” in Collins English Dictionary
• “weekday” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.